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was ruined and fo beaten downe , did runnc and flidc 

 vpon the land for the fpace ofa league and a halfe , as it 

 had beene water or wax molten, fo as it ftopt and filled 

 vppeaLake, and rcmayned fofpread over th: whole 

 countrey. 



How the land and ft a imbrue one att other. 

 CHAP. 27. 



IWil end with this Element of earth, vnitingit to the 

 precedent of water, whofe order and embracing is 

 truely of it felfe admirable. Thefe two elements have 

 one fpheare divided betweene them , and entertaine 

 and embrace one another in a thoufand fortes and ma- 

 ners . In fome places the water encountersthe land fu- 

 rioufly as an enemy , and in other places , it invirons 

 it after a fvvccte and amiable manner. There are partes 

 whereas the fea enters far within the had, as comming 

 tovifiteit; and in other partes the land makes reftitu- 

 tion, carting his capes,points and tongues farreinto the 

 lea, piercing into thebowclles thereof. In fome partes 

 one element ends and another beginnes, yeeldingby 

 degrees one vnto another. In fome places (where they 

 ioyne) it is exceeding deepe, as in the Hands of the 

 South Sea, and in thofe of the North, whereas the 

 fhippes ride dole to the land^and although they {bund 

 three fcore and tenne, yea foure (core fadomes, yet do 

 they findeno bottome, which makes men conie&ure, 

 that thefe arepikes or poynts of land which rife vp from 

 the bottome, a matter woorthy of great admiration. 

 Heerevpon a very expert Pilots laid vnto me, that the 

 Hands which they call of Woolves > aud others > that lie 



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